HIST 2850 Chapter 8-10: Ancient Greece - Week 4
12 Apr 2016
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Chapter 8: the peloponnesian war page #218-246: Archidamian war, after the spartan king and commander arhidamus. The periclean strategy and the plague: pericles devised an ingenious strategy for winning a war conceived as essentially defensive, and it is a measure of his influence and eloquence that he was able to persuade his fellow. Week 4 because people who undertake risky ventures do so in the expectation that they will succeed, not fail. Brasidas and chalcidice (424-422 bc): athens" hold on chalcidice had always been fragile, and when some chalcidic towns requested spartan aid and were joined in their appeal by athens" on-again, off-again ally. Perdiccas of macedonia, the spartan promptly dispatched brasidas: once in chalcidice, brasidas persuaded the towns of acanthus, stagirus, and argilus to revolt from athens, gaining possession of amphipolis would require a little more effort, but this cherished. Athenian stronghold was brasidas" principal target, and in fact he brought it over to the.
